On this page you'll find all the albums that just couldn't get in the Top 50 of Canterbury Albums, including classics such as Gilgamesh's first album, The Muffins' Manna/Mirage, Hopper's 1984, Frith's Gravity, Soft Heap & Ayers' The Confession of Dr. Dream.
Best of the Rest |
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| Artist | Album Title | Score | |
| Slapp Happy/Henry Cow | Desperate Straights | 36-6 | |
| Robert Wyatt | Dondestan | 35-8 | |
| Soft Machine | Bundles | 33-5 | |
| Soft Machine | Virtually | 28-4 | |
| Richard Sinclair | R.S.V.P. | 27-9 | |
| Bruford | One Of A Kind | 27-5 | |
| Quiet Sun | Mainstream | 27-5 | |
| Kevin Ayers | Bananamour | 26-7 | |
| Soft Machine | Noisette | 25-3 | |
| Gilgamesh | Gilgamesh | 24-5 | |
| Henry Cow | Western Culture | 24-5 | |
| Hopper & Gowen | Two Rainbows Daily | 24-5 | |
| Soft Machine | Triple Echo | 24-3 | |
| Kevin Ayers | Confession Of Dr. Dream | 23-5 | |
| Robert Wyatt | Nothing Can Stop Us | 23-5 | |
| Gilgamesh | Another Fine Tune You Got Me Into | 23-4 | |
| Art Bears | Winter Songs | 23-3 | |
| Robert Wyatt | Old Rottenhat | 22-8 | |
| Caravan | The Best Of Caravan Live | 22-4 | |
| Keith Tippett Group | You Are Here... I Am There | 21-4 | |
| Gong | Magick Brother, Mystic Sister | 21-3 | |
| Kevin Ayers | Rainbow Takeaway | 20-4 | |
| In Cahoots | Parallel | 20-3 | |
| Camel | Snow Goose | 18-5 | |
| Phil Miller | Cutting Both Ways | 18-3 | |
| Camel | Breathless | 17-2 | |
| In Cahoots | Live 1986-1989 | 17-2 | |
| Gong | Shamal | 16-6 | |
| Bruford | Feels Good To Me | 16-4 | |
| Fred Frith | Gravity | 16-4 | |
| Julie Driscoll | 1969 | 16-3 | |
| Dirk Campbell | Music From A Round Tower | 16-2 | |
| Art Bears | Hopes and Fears | 15-4 | |
| Soft Machine | Live at the Proms | 15-3 | |
| Elton Dean | Elton Dean/Just Us | 14-4 | |
| Hugh Hopper | 1984 | 14-3 | |
| Kevin Ayers | Yes, We Have No Mananas | 14-2 | |
| Gong | Gazeuse | 14-2 | |
| Caravan | Canterbury Tales '76 | 13-2 | |
| Soft Machine | Live in France | 13-2 | |
| Slapp Happy | Sort Of | 12-5 | |
| Camel | Moonmadness | 12-4 | |
| Hopper/Dean/Tippett/Gallivan | Mercy Dash | 12-4 | |
| Camel | Rain Dances | 12-3 | |
| Caravan | BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert | 12-3 | |
| Slapp Happy | Casablanca Moon (aka Slapp Happy) | 12-2 | |
| Kevin Ayers | Singing The Bruise | 11-3 | |
| Lol Coxhill | Ear of the Beholder | 11-2 | |
| Kevin Ayers a.o. | June 1, 1974 | 10-2 | |
| Cassiber | Perfect Worlds | 10-2 | |
| Steve Hillage | Green | 10-2 | |
| Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin | Up From The Dark | 10-2 | |
| Anthony More | Flying Doesn't Help | 10-1 | |
| Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins | Before A Word Is Said | 9-3 | |
| Steve Hillage | Motivation Radio | 9-2 | |
| Miller & Coxhill | Coxhill/Miller | 9-2 | |
| Muffins | Manna/Mirage | 9-2 | |
| National Health | Missing Pieces | 9-2 | |
| Nucleus | We'll Talk About It Later | 9-2 | |
| Caravan | Caravan And The New Symphonia | 9-1 | |
| Fred Frith | Speechless | 9-1 | |
| Gongmaison | Gong Maison | 9-1 | |
| McLaughlin & Surman | Extrapolation | 9-1 | |
| Fred Frith | Guitar Solos | 8-2 | |
| Hugh Hopper & Richard Sinclair | Somewhere In France | 8-2 | |
| Hugh Hopper | Best Soft | 8-2 | |
| Mike Oldfield | Ommadawn | 8-2 | |
| Peter Blegvad | The Naked Shakespeare | 8-1 | |
| Soft Machine | Alive and Well | 8-1 | |
| Robert Wyatt | Mid-Eighties | 8-1 | |
| Daevid Allen | Banana Moon | 7-2 | |
| Phil Miller | Digging In | 7-2 | |
| Kevin Ayers | Odd Ditties | 7-1 | |
| Carla Bley | Tropic Appetites | 7-1 | |
| Caravan | Battle of Hastings | 7-1 | |
| Elton Dean | Two's And Three's | 7-1 | |
| Gong | Live Etc. | 7-1 | |
| Slapp Happy | Acnalbasac Noom | 7-1 | |
| Robert Wyatt | Cuckooland | 7-1 | |
| Hugh Hopper Band | Carousel | 6-3 | |
| Caravan | Cunning Stunts | 6-2 | |
| Pip Pyle | Seven Year Itch | 6-2 | |
| Soft Machine | BBC Radio One Live in Concert Volume 1 | 6-2 | |
| Soft Machine | BBC Radio 1967-1971 | 6-2 | |
| Arzachel | Arzachel | 6-1 | |
| Ghoulies | Dogged by Dogma | 6-1 | |
| John Greaves | Parrot Fashion | 6-1 | |
| Pere Ubu | The Tenement Years | 6-1 | |
| Soft Heap | A Veritable Centaur | 6-1 | |
| Soft Machine | Facelift | 6-1 | |
| Soft Head | Rogue Element | 5-3 | |
| Allen/Smyth/Williamson | The Owl and The Tree | 5-1 | |
| Asylum | Cressida | 5-1 | |
| Peter Blegvad | Just Woke Up | 5-1 | |
| Camel | Dust And Dreams | 5-1 | |
| Clearlight | Visions (re-recorded version) | 5-1 | |
| In Cahoots | Recent Discoveries | 5-1 | |
| Ian Carr | Belladonna | 5-1 | |
| Planet Gong | Live Floating Anarchy | 5-1 | |
| David Sinclair | Moon Over Man | 5-1 | |
| Soft Machine | Out-Bloody Rageous | 5-1 | |
| Steps | Steps | 5-1 | |
| Surman & Warren | Tales of the Algonquin | 5-1 | |
| Syd Barrett | The Madcap Laughs | 4-2 | |
| News From Babel | Letters Home | 4-2 | |
| Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin | Spin | 4-2 | |
| UK | UK | 4-2 | |
| Daevid Allen | Now Is The Happiest Time Of Your Life | 4-1 | |
| Anaid | Belladonna | 4-1 | |
| Backdoor | Backdoor | 4-1 | |
| Carla Bley | Tropical Appetites | 4-1 | |
| Jack Bruce | Songs for a Tailor | 4-1 | |
| Fred Frith | Step Across The Border | 4-1 | |
| Frith/Cutler | Live In Berlin,Trondheim, Limoges | 4-1 | |
| Gowen & Hopper | Improvisations/Bracknell-Bresse | 4-1 | |
| Steve Hillage | Rainbow Dome Music | 4-1 | |
| Hopper & Hewins | Adreamor | 4-1 | |
| National Health | Playtime | 4-1 | |
| Ovary Lodge | Ovary Lodge | 4-1 | |
| John G. Perry | Seabird | 4-1 | |
| Keith Tippett | A Loose Kite Floating in the Gentle Wind... | 4-1 | |
| Muffins | Chronometers | 3-2 | |
| Daevid Allen | Je Ne Fum' Pas Des Bananes | 3-1 | |
| Bruford | Gradually Going Tornado | 3-1 | |
| Camel | Camel | 3-1 | |
| Camel | Nude | 3-1 | |
| Clearlight Mosaique | In Your Hands | 3-1 | |
| Lindsay Cooper | Oh Moscow | 3-1 | |
| Gong | Expresso II | 3-1 | |
| John Greaves | Songs | 3-1 | |
| Phil Miller & In Cahoots | All That | 3-1 | |
| Pere Ubu | Cloudland | 3-1 | |
| Slapp Happy | Ça Va | 3-1 | |
| Julie Tippetts | Sunset Glow | 3-1 | |
| Various Artists | New Violin Summit | 3-1 | |
| The Battered Ornaments | Mantle Piece | 2-1 | |
| Caravan | Blind Dog At St.Dunstans | 2-1 | |
| Cassiber | Man or Monkey | 2-1 | |
| Elton Dean | Silent Knowledge | 2-1 | |
| Deep Purple | Deep Purple | 2-1 | |
| Delivery | Fools' Meeting | 2-1 | |
| Gilgamesh | Arriving Twice | 2-1 | |
| John Greaves | La Petite Bouteille De Linge | 2-1 | |
| Steve Hillage | L | 2-1 | |
| Steve Hillage | BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert | 2-1 | |
| Hughscore | Delta Flora | 2-1 | |
| Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath | Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath | 2-1 | |
| News From Babel | Work Resumed On The Tower | 2-1 | |
| Polite Force | Canterbury Knights | 2-1 | |
| Soft Heap | Soft Heap | 2-1 | |
| Soft Machine | BBC Radio One Live in Concert Volume 2 | 2-1 | |
| Soft Machine | BBC Radio 1971-1974 | 2-1 | |
| Trio | Conflagration | 2-1 | |
| Wilde Flowers | Wilde Flowers | 2-1 | |
| Kevin Ayers | That's What You Get Babe | 1-1 | |
| Caravan | Songs for Oblivion Fishermen | 1-1 | |
| Dashiell Hedayat | Obsolete | 1-1 | |
| Here & Now | Floating Anarchy | 1-1 | |
| Allan Holdsworth | Sand | 1-1 | |
| Lady June | Linguistic Leprosy | 1-1 | |
| The Lodge | Smell Of A Friend | 1-1 | |
| Phil Miller | Split Seconds | 1-1 | |
| Missus Beastly | Missus Beastly | 1-1 | |
| Tom Newman | Fine Old Tom | 1-1 | |
| Dudu Pukwana | Diamond Express | 1-1 | |
| Short Wave | Live | 1-1 | |
| Soft Machine | Softs | 1-1 | |
| Soft Machine | Spaced | 1-1 | |
| Various Artists | Miniatures | 1-1 | |
| Volare | The Uncertainty Principle | 1-1 | |
| Mike Westbrook | Metropolis | 1-1 | |
| Robert Wyatt | Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974 | 1-1 | |